Dear XSL List,
I'm trying to get rid of a pesky namespace declaration, and I've tried
to follow the rules (as I ... er ... understand them), but without
success. Can someone please advise me on where my blind spot lies?
Here's a sample XML document instance:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<p>A paragraph in no namespace</p>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<title>Title in html namespace</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>A paragraph in the html namespace</p>
</body>
</html>
</root>
Here's the XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; version="2.0"
exclude-result-prefixes="#all">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test of removing namespaces</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="html:html/html:body/html:*">
<xsl:copy-of select="." copy-namespaces="no"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="html:html/html:head"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I specify exclude-result-prefixes="#all" on the <xsl:stylesheet> node
and I specify copy-namespaces="no" on the <xsl:copy-of> instruction that
copies all elements in the body the html document that is embedded in my
XML source. The first of these strategies makes the namespace
declaration on the paragraph in no namespace go away (so far, so good),
but the second does not suppress the unwanted namespace declaration on
the embedded <html:p>. Here's the output of a Saxon 8.9.0.4J
transformation (I've edited out some unwanted white space):
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test of removing namespaces</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>A paragraph in no namespace</p>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>A paragraph in the html
namespace</p>
</body>
</html>
What should I be doing to get rid of the xhtml namespace declaration?
Thanks!
Best,
David
djbpitt+xml@xxxxxxxx